Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

- Knight, Philip

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

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If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert